Skype and Avaya signed an agreement to integrate their wares last fall. the instant ability to reach Skype's 170 million users. Ballmer promised that Skype support for non-Microsoft platforms. Skype is already the glue between competing UC platforms. ∿rom our perspective it was better if we owned this company.� was really bidding against the upcoming IPO and figured it was cheaper to buy it now. Skype is being positioned as sitting at the nexus of mobile, social, and voice. The product and brand will continue to exist, and Ballmer promised to �continue to support non-Microsoft devices.�. From Skype�s point of view, the Microsoft deal could make it even more ubiquitous.
Erick Schonfeld hears what Steve Ballmer and Tony Bates have to say:īallmer did a good job couching the deal in terms of Microsoft�s mission to bring people closer together.
